Grofers' aggressive play to capture the online grocery shopping space

From Grocery & Staples to Personal Care and Beverages, India’s growing fervour for shopping groceries online was all time high during the recently concluded 9 day long sale - Grand Orange Bag Days. With record breaking numbers, India’s biggest sale in online grocery segment by Grofers hit 207.52 Cr GMV with 14 lac visits on the app every day during the sale days.

Aligned with its aim to drive the next wave of growth for e-commerce sector, the sale which allowed consumers to shop everything at 100% cash back (up to Rs. 5000), got 2.5 lac new consumers to buy groceries online for the very first time.

Here is a peek into which state spent the highest and on what they loved shopping the most.

Which city ordered what?

- Atta, Tea and Ghee emerged as the most sold products in Delhi NCR

- Lucknow ordered the most number of Almonds, Atta and Detergent Powder

The above findings are derived from the order analysis for Grofers ‘Grand Orange Bag Days’ sale, which started from 19th January through 27thJanuary, 2019. The sale was operational across all 13 Grofers markets such as Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Noida, Mumbai and Pune.